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I HAVE not been able of late to keep up my correspondence with you so constantly as my heart inclined
me to do. But I hope now to write you oftener; but
I don t incline to write very particularly, lest my letters should be intercepted. I am in tolerable health,
but oppressed with a load of public cares. I have
long foreseen that we should be brought down to a
great degree of depression before the people of America would be convinced of their real danger, of the
true causes of it, and be stimulated to take the necessary steps for a reformation. Government and law in
the States, large taxation, and strict discipline in our
armies, are the only things wanting as human means.
These with the blessing of Heaven will certainly produce glory, triumph, liberty, and safety, and peace ;
and nothing but these will do.

I long with the utmost impatience to come home.
Don t send a servant for me. The expense is so
enormous that I cannot bear the thought of it. I will
crawl home upon my little pony, and wait upon my
self as well as I can. I think you had better sell my
horse.

The people are universally calling for fighting and
for blood. Washington is getting into the humor of
fighting, and Howe begins to dread it. And well he
may. Fighting will certainly answer the end, al
though we may be beaten every time for a great
while. We have been heretofore greatly deceived
concerning the numbers of militia. But there are
numbers enough, if they knew how to fight, which as
soon as their Generals will let them, they will learn.
I am, with every tender sentiment,